A cancer survivor left with crippling disabilities and chronic pain after life saving treatment says she can no longer afford food after her benefits were slashed.

Sally was diagnosed with a rare uterine carcinoma in December 2016 and underwent months of gruelling radiotherapy and chemotherapy that wrecked her nervous system, left her in constant pain and reliant on opioid drugs including morphine.

But now the 50-year-old says she can barely afford food and feels like a prisoner in her Cambridge flat after having her benefits cut by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP).

Sally said: “Mentally I felt like I was going insane. I’m just in the flat all the time crying.

"I want to go out but I can’t get out, so I’m trapped in here just like a prison."

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She says she and her partner - who gave up her job to become Sally's carer - have been left "crippled".

Sally, who relies on opioid drugs like morphine to manage her pain, says the benefits cut is also making it nearly impossible to run her disability car which she relies on to make it to hospital appointments at Addenbrooke's.

She said: "I feel like no-one cares if you’re disabled, you’re not given any help."

Sally says she now feels like a prisoner in her own home. (Image: Warren Gunn)

Sally, who has had 179 hospital appointments in the last two years, says the anxiety over money worries has also worsened her fears over the rare cancer returning.

She said: “If my cancer come back I’ll only have 12 months to live.

"They’ve said they can’t treat it again, there is no cure.

"I’m going through a struggle, I was suicidal a few months ago because I’m petrified of the cancer coming back, there are days I just melt down.”